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• King, Clarence 1842-1901 [Browse]
• Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 [Browse]
• Martin, Edward Sandford 1856-1939 [Browse]
• Warner, Charles Dudley 1829-1900 [Browse]
• Winthrop, Theodore 1828-1861 [Browse]
• Mabie, Hamilton Wright 1846-1916 [Browse]
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 [Browse]
• Burroughs, John 1837-1921 [Browse]
• Dana, Richard Henry 1815-1882 [Browse]
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 [Browse]
• Trent, William P. (William Peterfield) 1862-1939 [Browse]
• Brownell, W. C. (William Crary) 1851-1928 [Browse]
• Crothers, Samuel McChord 1857-1927 [Browse]
• Butler, Nicholas Murray 1862-1947 [Browse]
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823-1911 [Browse]
• Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849 [Browse]
• Howells, William Dean 1837-1920 [Browse]
• Lowell, James Russell 1819-1891 [Browse]
• James, Henry 1843-1916 [Browse]
• Eliot, Charles William 1834-1926 [Browse]
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1809-1894 [Browse]
• Irving, Washington 1783-1859 [Browse]
• Lodge, Henry Cabot 1850-1924 [Browse]
• Curtis, George William 1824-1892 [Browse]
• Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 [Browse]
• Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 [Browse]
• Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862 [Browse]

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Public domain in the USA. Project Gutenberg 2012-07-10

Contents

• Introduction
• The ephemera: an emblem of human life / Benjamin Franklin
• The whistle / Benjamin Franklin
• Dialogue between Franklin and the gout / Benjamin Franklin
• Consolation for the old bachelor / Francis Hopkinson
• John Bull / Washington Irving
• The mutability of literature / Washington Irving
• Kean's acting / Richard Henry Dana
• Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Uses of great men / Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Buds and bird-voices / Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe
• Bread and the newspaper / Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Walking / Henry David Thoreau
• On a certain condescension in foreigners / James Russell Lowell
• Preface to "Leaves of Grass" / Walt Whitman
• Americanism in literature / Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Thackeray in America / George William Curtis
• Our march to Washington / Theodore Winthrop
• Calvin / Charles Dudley Warner
• Five American contributions to civilization / Charles William Eliot
• I talk of dreams / William Dean Howells
• An idyl of the honey-bee / John Burroughs
• Cut-off Copples's / Clarence King
• The Théâtre Français / Henry James
• Theocritus on Cape Cod / Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Colonialism in the United States / Henry Cabot Lodge
• New York after Paris / William Crary Brownell
• The tyranny of things / Edward Sandford Martin
• Free trade vs. protection in literature / Samuel McChord Crothers
• Dante and the Bowery / Theodore Roosevelt
• The revolt of the unfit / Nicholas Murray Butler
• On translating the odes of Horace / William Peterfield Trent.

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